lina:
>
> Yes. the ultimate goal is:
>
> for i in {0..108}
> do
> cat A_$i.txt B_$i.txt C_$i.txt -o ABC_$i.txt (output as ABC_$i.txt)
> done
Ok, so you don't actually have only A_$i filenames, but B_$i and C_$i as
well. That alone makes my previous approach useless (as I predicted!).
The other problem is that you need to redirect output (cat doesn't have
an -o option). This makes things a little bit tricky. The best way to
deal with both problems is probably to make xargs spawn a new shell
which receives the current number as positional argument ($1) and uses
it in multiple places:
$ cat A_1.txt B_1.txt C_1.txt
a1
b1
c1
$ seq 1 3 | xargs --verbose -n1 -P8 -I{} sh -c \
'cat "A_$1.txt" "B_$1.txt" "C_$1.txt" > "ABC_$1.txt"' -- '{}'
sh -c cat "A_$1.txt" "B_$1.txt" "C_$1.txt" > "ABC_$1.txt" -- 1
sh -c cat "A_$1.txt" "B_$1.txt" "C_$1.txt" > "ABC_$1.txt" -- 2
sh -c cat "A_$1.txt" "B_$1.txt" "C_$1.txt" > "ABC_$1.txt" -- 3
$ cat ABC_1.txt
a1
b1
c1
This should be quite robust when encountering whitespace in filenames as
well.
> but here I wish to use only 8 processors at most, total is 16.
> the administrator of the cluster asked me not to use whole, cause
> someone else needs SMP server.
Are you sure that your task is CPU-bound? Reading and writing files is
most probably limited by your storage. Or is cat just another example?
As a sidenote: it took me quite some time to find this solution. I only
made this effort because I was interested in the solution myself. In the
future, you should try to present the whole problem upfront or otherwise
people might get frustrated trying to help you while you keep changing
the problem. And please trim your quotes more thoroughly.
J.
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